Twelve positions at the LCMS International Center in St. Louis will be eliminated Dec. 1, as the restructuring mandated by this summer’s Synod convention begins. The 12 positions are being phased out as the Office of the President begins taking…

LCMS Life Ministries and Lutherans For Life (LFL) both are offering resources designed to help congregations observe “Life Sunday” on Jan. 16 or Jan. 23 — a date closer to the anniversary date of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Jan. 22,…

A new exhibit of Concordia Historical Institute’s (CHI) 41 prints from woodcuts by Albrecht Durer is on display through 2011 at the Institute’s building on the campus of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Titled “Albrecht Durer: Master Woodcut Artist of the German…

By Kim Plummer Krull After members of Faith Lutheran Church participated in a workshop to better tune into needs in their Groton, Conn., neighborhood, the congregation started a food kitchen that now serves more than 75 families weekly. Two years…

By Paula Schlueter Ross Missionary Erin Mackenzie says she was “very excited” to hear that a photo she took — of an American teenager hugging a young Mexican boy — received the most votes in the Facebook-based LCMS World Mission…

The 2010 children’s Christmas program from Concordia Publishing House, “God’s Love at Christmas,” is based on the children’s Christmas hymn, “God Loves Me Dearly.”  The hymn was originally written in 1852 by Rev. August Rische, a German Lutheran pastor who was working with…

By Albert B. Collver On Oct. 28, a delegation from the LCMS consisting of Dr. Albert Collver, the Synod’s director of Church Relations — assistant to the president; Dr. Joel Lehenbauer, executive director of the LCMS Commission on Theology and…

By Gene Edward Veith Do atheists know more about religion than religious people do?  That was the conclusion of recent news reports on the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, which released…